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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 8m

Musk, Thiel, Zuck… just completely melted brains. People need to be told “no” on occasion and if that doesn’t happen your brains leak out your ears and you start wearing a chain in your 40s for some reason.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 11m

I don’t know if having unlimited money actually melts your frontal cortex, but this outcome is observationally equivalent.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 38m

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 12h

Seal Team Six.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 15h

Yellow Cake Milkshake.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · Jun 9

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 23h

If we are, in fact, cooked, it’s somehow poetic that the dumbest shit imaginable is what brought us down.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 23h

The classic luxury home at the center of the James “mortgage fraud” case.

www.pilotonline.com/2025/10/10/n...

Here’s the Norfolk house at center of mortgage fraud case DOJ brought against Letitia James

An unassuming house in Norfolk’s Fairmount Park neighborhood is at the center of a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department brought against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

www.pilotonline.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

This is the way. Never cut deals with fascists.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

“The Bris: totally kosher or neurodivergence by a single cut? We asked three doctors who have lost their medical licenses to weigh in on The Controversy”

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is sparking debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

Here’s what the science actually says:

RFK Jr. linked circumcision and Tylenol to autism. Here’s what scientists say.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sparks debate with claims linking circumcision and Tylenol to autism, but scientists say the evidence is lacking.

wapo.st

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone sells an inflatable milkshake costume there is a serious trolling opportunity to be had here.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1d

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder what this “turbo burner” does? Better touch it and find out!

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

The defining feature of Trumpism is the collective hallucination of a reality that doesn't exist. They live in a delusion where cities are on fire and antifa is a thing comparable with Hamas or ISIS. They cannot afford to let widespread mass protest destroy the illusion. 1/2

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

Also, Milkshakes: The ANTIFA terror beverage.

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Rev. Magdalen @revmagdalen.bsky.social · 1d

We all know what to do, right? Be out on the streets in your absolutely cutest costume on 10/18. Make the regime look ridiculous, like the Portland inflatables do.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

The defining feature of Trumpism is the collective hallucination of a reality that doesn't exist. They live in a delusion where cities are on fire and antifa is a thing comparable with Hamas or ISIS. They cannot afford to let widespread mass protest destroy the illusion. 1/2

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

We now cut live to the guy who got fired from Buzzfeed for plagiarism, for some reason.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

Bull Conners famously ended the Civil Rights movement via reckless use of force.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

i had the same reaction

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

Mixed feelings on Newsom, to say the least, but this is a huge accomplishment and presents a coherent "Blue State Model" for other places like NY, MA, WA, to follow. This kind of stuff will boost his 28 profile more than people suspect, i reckon.

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of excitement over SB 79—understandably. I would add, every single bill California YIMBY sent to the governor was signed today. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/10/10/g...

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, it's pure extortion, and this "compact" must be resisted. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

They're playing a weak hand and they know it. The economy is teetering, they're losing a shutdown, huge mass demonstrations are on tap for next weekend, and human rights violations appear daily in the media. They're scared, and the elections on 11/4 in VA and elsewhere are going to send a message.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

The defining feature of Trumpism is the collective hallucination of a reality that doesn't exist. They live in a delusion where cities are on fire and antifa is a thing comparable with Hamas or ISIS. They cannot afford to let widespread mass protest destroy the illusion. 1/2

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 2d

Displays features consistent with The Jew. Detained for further investigation

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 2d

Look at this fascist.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 2d

“Make sure it’s skim milk. There are children watching”

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